Osbaldiston, Nick (2024) The Challenge of Climate Change for Future Port Cities: Considering the Precautionary Principle in Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise. In: Hein, Carola, Bartlomiejski, Robert, and Kowalewski, Maciej, (eds.) Hustle and Bustle: The Vibrant Cultures of Port Cities. International Studies in Maritime Sociology, 3 . Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 20-39.

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Abstract

Port cities have been transformed. While once they might have been narrated as sleepy, slow-paced, romantic places with sailing ships nestled on limitless waterscapes, they are now centres of commerce, trade, tourism, entertainment, and residential living. To borrow from Simmel (1903[1997]), port cities are the seat of the money economy where daily, they symbolise a “gate to the world and a place for the exchange of people, ideas, and goods” (Kowalewski, 2021, p. 55). In 2020 the global pandemic dramatically changed this situation. Once hustling and bustling port cities reliant on tourism were substantially impacted, as the flow of humans/non-humans reduced to a trickle, turning port cities into cathedrals of stillness. With the arrival of vaccines and the removal of state border closures, they are now experiencing economic/social/ cultural recovery (Hein & Schubert, 2021a; 2021b). In the background, however, climate change continues to loom as a challenge to that port-city resilience.

Item ID:	84298
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	978-90-04-71117-4
ISSN:	2667-0798
Keywords:	port cities; climate change adaptation; sea-level rise; precautionary principle
Copyright Information:	© Nick Osbaldiston, 2025. Copyright 2025 by Carola Hein, Maciej Kowalewski, and Robert Bartłomiejski. Published by Koninklijke Brill BV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Date Deposited:	10 Dec 2024 23:46
FoR Codes:	44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4410 Sociology > 441002 Environmental sociology @ 70% 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4410 Sociology > 441016 Urban sociology and community studies @ 30%
SEO Codes:	19 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL HAZARDS > 1901 Adaptation to climate change > 190103 Social impacts of climate change and variability @ 100%
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